Private foundation · EIN 94-3082532 · Seattle, WA · Return for the year ending 2023-12-31
Where The Paul G Allen Family Foundation's grants went
It reported $47.6M in grants paid across 138 lines. WHOFUNDS matched 74.2% of those dollars to 73 recipient organizations.
- Matched to an EIN $35.3M 101 lines
- No confident match $3.42M 16
- Outside the US $8.88M 21
What its filing says about applications
Preselected only It checked the 990-PF box saying it only gives to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.
- Website on filing
- WWW.PGAFAMILYFOUNDATION.ORG
Contact names and phone numbers are on the filing itself. WHOFUNDS doesn't republish them.
Grants paid 133 published lines
| Recipient | Paid | Purpose as filed | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Corporation Boston, MA · EIN 04-2774441 | $2,500,000 | TO SUPPORT THE ALLEN DISCOVERY CENTER FOR HUMAN BRAIN EVOLUTION AT BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | Same address 1.00 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY · EIN 13-6171197 | $2,500,000 | TO SUPPORT THE ALLEN DISCOVERY CENTER FOR NEUROIMMUNE INTERACTIONS | Same address 1.00 |
| University of Washington Foundation C/O University of Washington Seattle, WA · EIN 94-3079432 | $2,500,000 | TO SUPPORT ALLEN DISCOVERY CENTER FOR CELL LINEAGE TRACING PHASE 2 | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| National Geographic Society Washington, DC · EIN 53-0193519 | $1,593,133 | TO SUPPORT THE SLINGSHOT CHALLENGE | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| Sustainable Markets Foundation New York, NY · EIN 13-4188834 | $1,390,000 | TO SUPPORT DECODING MYCORRHIZAL NETWORKS AT GLOBAL SCALE | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| Southeast Effective Development Seattle, WA · EIN 91-0947619 | $1,327,300 | TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUENCY: A CULTURAL SPACE ADVISORY PROGRAM | Same address 1.00 |
| Florida International University Foundation Miami, FL · EIN 23-7047106 | $1,287,075 | TO SUPPORT A PROJECT TITLED "OPERATION PANGOLIN" | Same address 1.00 |
| American Heart Association Dallas, TX · EIN 13-5613797 | $1,250,000 | TO SUPPORT BIOSCIENCE RESEARCH IN RELATION TO ADVANCING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF BRAIN HEALTH AND COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT | Known alias 1.00 |
| Fresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation Fresno, CA · EIN 42-1661145 | $1,168,644 | TO SUPPORT QUANTIFYING SELECTION LANDSCAPES WHILE HEAD-STARTING ENDANGERED BLUNT-NOSED LEOPARD LIZARDS (GAMBELIA SILA) | Same address 1.00 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors New York, NY · EIN 13-3615533 | $1,000,000 | TO SUPPORT OCEANS 5 RENEWAL | Same city 1.00 |
| The Pride Foundation Seattle, WA · EIN 91-1325007 | $940,000 | TO SUPPORT THE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT FOR YOUTH-SERVING ORGANIZATIONS PILOT | Same address 1.00 |
| University of Washington Foundation C/O University of Washington Seattle, WA · EIN 94-3079432 | $858,064 | TO SUPPORT THE SALISH SEA COUPLED MODELING FRAMEWORK. | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford Oxford, UK · outside the US | $800,000 | TO SUPPORT LION LIFELINE: TRANSFORMING CONSERVATION AT SCALE BY LINKING INVESTMENT TO MEASURABLE SUCCESS IN CONSERVING LIONS AND WIDER BIODIVERSITY | Foreign |
| Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC · EIN 53-0206027 | $791,902 | TO SUPPORT RESTORING BLACK-FOOTED FERRETS TO THEIR HISTORIC RANGE IN NORTHCENTRAL MONTANA | Same city 1.00 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors New York, NY · EIN 13-3615533 | $750,000 | TO SUPPORT THE SHARK CONSERVATION FUND | Same city 1.00 |
| Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI · EIN 99-0161980 | $748,066 | TO SUPPORT ADDRESSING KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY SHORTFALLS TO ADVANCE CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND ACTION FOR ENDANGERED HAWAIIAN LAND SNAILS | Same address 1.00 |
| The Earth Species Project Berkeley, CA · EIN 82-5167508 | $599,998 | TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FOUNDATION MODEL FOR ENCODING ANIMAL VOCALIZATIONS | Same address 1.00 |
| Wildlife Crime Prevention Project Lusaka, ZA · outside the US | $573,258 | TO SUPPORT THE REGIONAL INTERMEDIARY AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | Foreign |
| University of British Columbia Vancouver, CA · outside the US | $562,100 | TO SUPPORT A FATE-MAPPED HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL LIBRARY FOR DESIGNER ORGANOIDS | Foreign |
| Zoological Society of San Diego San Diego, CA · EIN 95-1648219 | $551,247 | TO SUPPORT BURROWS AS BUFFERS: DO MICROHABITAT SELECTION AND BEHAVIOR MEDIATE DESERT TORTOISE RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE? | Exact name 1.00 |
| Mote Marine Laboratory Sarasota, FL · EIN 59-0756643 | $500,496 | TO SUPPORT GLOBAL FINPRINT 2: TRACKING GLOBAL FINPRINT OF SHARKS IN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS | Same address 1.00 |
| American Friends of the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales Newton, MA · EIN 45-2062094 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT UNITED FOR WILDLIFE IN COMBATING ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| Asia Pacific Cultural Center Tacoma, WA · EIN 91-1854410 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT ONE HEART, ONE HOME CAMPAIGN: NEW BUILDING PROJECT | Same address 1.00 |
| Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD · EIN 52-0595110 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT COMPOSITION AND FUNCTIONALITY OF THE EV CORONA: LEARNING FROM LIPOPROTEINS | Same street 1.00 |
| Research Corporation Dba Research Corporation for Science Advancement Tucson, AZ · EIN 13-1963407 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT A PROGRAM TO CATALYZE NEW RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS FOR INVESTIGATING HOW THE MICROBIOME CONTRIBUTES TO HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE W… | Same address 1.00 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors New York, NY · EIN 13-3615533 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT OCEANS 5 | Same city 1.00 |
| The Rockefeller University New York, NY · EIN 13-1624158 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT THE ORIGIN, EVOLUTION, AND DYNAMICS OF MICROPEPTIDES IN THE IMMUNE SYSTEM | Same address 1.00 |
| The University Corporation San Francisco State San Francisco, CA · EIN 94-1384645 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT BUILDING A MODEL OF A COMPLEX BRAIN UNCONSTRAINED BY SHARED EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; SENSORI-MOTOR INTEGRATION AND PLASTICITY IN CE… | Same address 1.00 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Redwood City, CA · EIN 94-1156365 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT MINING THE HUMAN GUT MICROBIAL MICROPROTEOME FOR MODULATORS OF INFLAMMATION | Known alias 1.00 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Urbana, IL · EIN 37-6000511 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT REAL-TIME LABEL-FREE DYNAMIC IMAGING OF EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN LIVE TISSUES | Exact name 1.00 |
| Trustees of Boston University Boston, MA · EIN 04-2103547 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT ENGINEERING BRANCHING NETWORKS THROUGH SYNTHETIC TURING MORPHOGEN CIRCUITS | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| Tubman Center for Health & Freedom Seattle, WA · EIN 85-1543325 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT FORTIFYING FUTURES FOR OUR YOUTH | Same ZIP 1.00 |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Cambridge, MA · EIN 06-1043412 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT ENGINEERING THE STROMAL SECRETOME TO PROGRAM ORGAN DEVELOPMENT AND MATURATION | Same address 1.00 |
| Yale University New Haven, CT · EIN 06-0646973 | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT DISCOVERY OF MICROPEPTIDES IN HUMAN IMMUNE CELLS AND SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS | Known alias 1.00 |
| Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY · no confident EIN match | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT SEX HORMONE MORPHOGENESIS: A NEW FRONTIER IN STUDYING ORGAN DEVELOPMENT | Unmatched Help match |
| Murdoch Children's Research Institute Melbourne, AS · outside the US | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF GENDER AFFIRMING HORMONE THERAPY (GAHT) ON IMMUNE FUNCTION USING A SYSTEMS IMMUNOLOGY APPROACH | Foreign |
| Trustees of Princeton University Princeton, NJ · no confident EIN match | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT OPTICAL TOOLS FOR VISUALIZING SEX HORMONES AS DRIVERS OF DYNAMIC INTERNAL STATES | Unmatched Help match |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, AL · no confident EIN match | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT BLOOD-BRAIN COMMUNICATION VIA EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES UNDERLYING BRAIN FUNCTION AND BEHAVIOR | Unmatched Help match |
| University of Florida Gainesville, FL · no confident EIN match | $500,000 | TO SUPPORT RECONSTRUCTING THE DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE MOTOR NEURAL CIRCUITS OF THE LAST COMMON ANIMAL ANCESTOR | Unmatched Help match |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego LA Jolla, CA · EIN 95-6006144 | $499,566 | TO SUPPORT EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN MAINTENANCE OF NEURONAL CIRCUITRY | Same street 1.00 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Urbana, IL · EIN 37-6000511 | $479,882 | TO SUPPORT PRECISION LIVE SINGLE CELL NANO-SURGERY FOR REVEALING PROTEOME DYNAMICS | Exact name 1.00 |
| The Francis Crick Institute Limited London, UK · outside the US | $464,929 | TO SUPPORT IDENTIFYING THE CIRCUIT MECHANISMS OF JUMPING IN SCAPTODROSOPHILA LARVAE | Foreign |
| Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx, NY · EIN 13-1740011 | $462,310 | TO SUPPORT CITES WORK RELATED TO SHARKS | Same street 1.00 |
| Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx, NY · EIN 13-1740011 | $462,310 | TO SUPPORT CITES WORK RELATED TO SHARKS | Same street 1.00 |
| State of Hawaii Dlnr - Aso Honolulu, HI · no confident EIN match | $440,400 | TO SUPPORT ADDRESSING KNOWLEDGE AND CAPACITY SHORTFALLS TO ADVANCE CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND ACTION FOR ENDANGERED HAWAIIAN LAND SNAILS | Unmatched Help match |
| Fritz-Lipmann Institute Jena, GM · outside the US | $420,763 | TO SUPPORT PRO-WATCH: AN APPROACH TO MONITOR PROTEIN LIFESPAN IN AGING WORMS | Foreign |
| Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur Forderung Der Wissenschaften Ev Munich, GM · outside the US | $416,837 | TO SUPPORT VISUALIZING LIPID NUTRIENT TURNOVER IN HUMAN TISSUE MODELS | Foreign |
| Trustees of Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA · EIN 04-2103545 | $416,660 | TO SUPPORT CONTROLLED LABELING OF THE NASCENT PROTEOME TO TRACK PROTEIN LIFESPAN IN MAMMALIAN CELLS | Same street 1.00 |
| Mukuru Clean Stoves Foundation Siaya County, KE · outside the US | $413,000 | TO SUPPORT COMBATTING AIR POLLUTION & MALARIA | Foreign |
| Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum Fur Gesundheit Und Um Neuherberg, GM · outside the US | $403,301 | TO SUPPORT SUBCELLULAR COMPARTMENTALIZATION OF METABOLISM | Foreign |
5 more lines ($1.95M) aren't listed because the payee name as filed could identify a private person.
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22 recipients in common - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Seattle, WA
20 recipients in common - Shell USA Company Foundation Houston, TX
19 recipients in common - Texas Instruments Foundation Dallas, TX
18 recipients in common - Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Princeton, NJ
17 recipients in common
Where this comes from
Grant lines are from Part XV of this foundation's Form 990-PF (XML). The filing names each payee but gives no tax ID, so WHOFUNDS matched payees to the IRS Business Master File. Lines it couldn't match confidently are listed as filed. Method and limits.